SOLAR: Scores of North Carolina customers were denied or waitlisted for Duke Energy solar rebates last month due to technical glitches with a website. (Energy News Network)
ALSO:
• Florida lawmakers consider a bill that would exempt investments in solar panels from schools’ per student spending caps. (WTSP)
• A Louisville scientist is researching how to make solar-powered hydrogen fuel technology cost-competitive with hydrogen made from natural gas. (WFPL)
• A new solar company in West Virginia works to help transition the northern part of the state to clean energy. (The Journal)
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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: The Southeast could become a hot spot for producing electric vehicles, but experts say the region could fall behind if state policies don’t keep up. (E&E News, subscription)
NUCLEAR: A South Carolina judge sets an April 20 start date for a trial deciding whether utility Santee Cooper should refund billions of dollars to ratepayers for a failed nuclear project. (Associated Press)
WIND: Dominion Energy says it will negotiate with construction and trade unions for the company’s wind project off the coast of Virginia. (Daily Energy Insider)
UTILITIES: Two dozen people opposed to Duke Energy’s request for a 6% rate increase in western North Carolina dominate a public hearing in Charlotte. (WFAE)
OIL & GAS:
• A third man dies after a gas explosion at a Texas oil well last week. (Houston Chronicle)
• Louisiana’s governor seeks $150 million from the federal government to elevate a highway that leads to an oil and gas hub on the coast. (Associated Press)
• Big oil companies’ profits plunged at the end of last year due to low oil and gas prices and investors’ long-term concerns about climate change. (E&E News, subscription)
OFFSHORE DRILLING: The head of the federal government’s offshore safety agency thinks there will be a drilling resurgence in the Gulf of Mexico. (Houston Chronicle)
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COAL ASH: The Tennessee Valley Authority is trying to identify families of those buried in a Tennessee cemetery, which it wants to move so that it can store coal ash on the site. (WKRN)
COMMENTARY:
• Florida needs to help mitigate climate change, and the first step should be installing more solar, a climate activist writes. (Sarasota Herald Tribune)
• North Carolina can’t create a clean energy economy without natural gas, a resident writes. (Fayetteville Observer)